This is strange. Is this price drop because everyone wanted PS3 to be cheaper to start with, or because Smiths want rid of their expensive stock allocation? The bigger thing is the mixed message this cut sends to gamers and potential buyers.

I have to say in all my years as a gamer, this is the fastest pricedrop for a brand new console ever, and while its not by Sony themselves, it shows some kind of worry creeping in to the retail heads of some. I wonder who'll be next and if there will be a high street price war.

Perhaps Spong should do their detective bit, and ask WH Smiths about this price cut in more detail.

i think that a lot of shops are going to be doing this because the ps3 stock is not selling and if it is not selling then thay arnt making any money i go bake to my uther post and say sony have bitten of more than thay can chew

Sure it didn't sell out, what you expect when you have a million of those suckers ready for launch! And it sold great at launch...if you have to believe the charts.

Then you get this...which actualy contradicts the former if you apply logic supply and demand thinking...

Begs the question, are those 165 000 sold true?

Whhhhaaaat? It looks far better than the 360? What utter rot. The 360 is a jumped-up PC in a crappy size-zero box, all flat-chested and will most likely break if you bang it hard enough. And that PSU is ridiculous, like lifting up an attractive girl's skirt to find a giant turd dangling from her arsehair. PS3 is a super-computer in a shiny, super-curvy ornamental case. Mmmmm! Of course PS3 has 20% of the games, it's only been out a week! What a ridiculous statement to make!
WH Smith has slashed the price because nobody buys games, CDs or DVDs from there, let alone £400 of computer hardware. It's a desperate ploy from WH Smith to get customers in their shop, and it will probably work. It's nowt to do with Sony or the quality of the PS3, it's just a ploy from one of the high-street's most outdated and backwards-thinking retailers. I should know for I worked in one for 8 years. Just go and look on their shelves and you will see rows and rows of out-dated, over-priced games, many of which can be bought at retailers around the corner for a quarter of the price.

Seriously, WH Smith are just desperate to get people to buy games from their shop. Because whoever is in charge of their games division at the moment has been doing a s**t job of it for years.